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 Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:27 pm
Gus sat forward to get a better look at whatever it was on the floor. He'd been sitting in the living area of the Jivvin center for almost an hour and the small misshappen brown whatever it was on the floor had been bothering him for most of that hour.... It was a pair of small brown pants all wadded up and carelessly left on the floor....
"Huh... " He looked about him with a confused expression... there were no small people missing pants that he'd seen lately... but the thought did make him smile to himself.
After a few minutes he lazily pulled himself forward off the sofa and managed to get his hand around the pants. He had them folded and on the table before anyone would be able to count to anything... let alone three.
But he ended up picking up the small pants again just to try and see if he recognized them at all.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:36 pm
Tifa walked across the grass leading up the lawn to the Jivvin center. She didn't know why she was there - it had just kind of occurred to her to go. She hadn't been in a while, after all. She pocketed the keys to her '86 Crown Victoria and tucked a piece of hair behind her hair. She grabbed the doorhandle and stepped in, shutting it and turning towards the living room. She stopped and looked up, blinking. Gus? She immediately grinned.
"Gus! Hey, I haven't-...um, what's with the pants?" she said, folding her arms and tilting her head. She didn't seem creeped out - just amused.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:43 pm
He leapt to his feet. "TIFA!" He fairly yelled it and then blushed bright pink after he realized. "I'm... um... I'm sorry... you startled me..." He held the small pants out in between his finger and thumb and pointed at them with his other hand as if they were diseased....
"I... um... I found them.. I ... um... I don't know how they... um.. who they belong to.... " he sighed... this was silly.
Gus turned and dropped the pants on the table before running a hand through his hair in effort to calm himself. He turned back to her with a smile that was partial glee and partial worry. "How are you?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:49 pm
She laughed. "Fine, thanks to you," she said, flicking his ear playfully. "Don't worry about it. At least they're not your pants," she said, shrugging and flopping down on the couch. She grabbed them from the table and examined them. "Hmmm...seems some little one has lost his pants...that should be an interesting story," she said, grinning. She tossed them back on the table, tucking her legs up under her.
"So," she said, patting the seat next to her, "how're you?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:55 pm
"lonely" .... he said it plainly and simply as he plonked down onto the sofa...
"Everyone's gone. They're all off doing bigger and better things with their lives..." He smiled at her. "even you I guess, though..." He stopped and thought of a way to say things... "Nobody really keeps in touch. Fen's been missing, Bruce is off helping other people with projects... you know how he is..." he smiled sadly at her... "Mostlly I've been worried about you and Fen... I'm really worried that Fen might be dead, I haven't seen him or heard from or of him in a long time."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:03 pm
Tifa's face softened at his first words, and her features were etched with concern for the duration of his speaking. "Awww, Gus..." she said, blushing slightly. She hadn't exactly been there for him lately...gotten wrapped up in her own stuff...
"Well, I haven't really 'moved on' or anything. I'm working a crap job as a secretary, and I drive that old hunk of metal, so I don't really think that constitutes me doing anything great." She smiled. "As for Fen...well, he's Fen. He's off somewhere blowing something up or something like that. Trust me, if he was dead...we'd know by now. Plus Misae would've come in crying and everything," she said, smiling a little. Misae probably wouldn't let Fen die without raising her babies, come to think of it. She'd keep him alive.
"But, I have no excuses for not seeing you. In fact, I owe you one. Any favors you'd like to ask?" she said, throwing up her hands in an "I surrender" kind of way.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:15 pm
He smiled and blushed... "You don't... you don't owe me anything." He sighed and grabbed her hands. Pulling them down in front of her and holding each in his own... "I'm just glad you're ok." He nodded his head. "Really. You and Fen are the two that I worried about most, just because you're my two closest friends." He was such a sap... but he couldn't help it. "I've been working at the casino... I'm the change boy, and I get tips when little blue haired old ladies want to pet my 'fuzzy ears'" He cringed slightly.
She was beautiful. Completely and totaly lovely in each and every way. From her ears down to the tip of her tail, everything she did and said and wore and smiled and ... he sighed and smiled... green was his favourite colour.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:23 pm
Tifa smiled and started slightly when he grabbed her hands, but immediately relaxed into it. His hands felt warm...nice. She didn't know why but they were...really nice. She blushed at his words, but then giggled. "Well, I mean, who could resist you? After all, blue never goes out of style," she said, grinning.
And then it happened. She had no idea what came over her, what she was thinking, but something inside her brain sparked. Kiss him, it said.
What?!
KISS HIM!!!
And without thinking about it, she leaned in and kissed him, just a brush on the lips, and immediately jumped back. Her face went bright red all the way up to her ears - a very un-Tifa embarassment. "Um, I'm sorry, I don't know...what that was..." she said, stumbling over her words. Oh my God, oh my God, he's never gonna talk to me again, she thought, panicking. For some reason, that thought scared her more than anything else.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:29 pm
His brain exploded... no really... O.o ....
and before he knew it he was remembering the time that her lips brushed his and he watched as she stuttered and stammered over her words, very un-Tifa like... and so very un-Gus like (as if they were switched for a moment) he pulled on her hands for a moment before reaching one arm behind her around her back and the other around her behind her head... Gus pulled the only Jivvin he had spent the entire last year of his life thinking about into a deperate kiss. He didn't care if she never spoke to him again, he NEEDED this. He needed to know what it would be like... Hell he'd thought about it over and over and over again...
He kissed her hard, and there was no denying that he cared for her... she'd know it now if she didn't before.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:37 pm
Fireworks were going off in Tifa's head. She didn't resist him - she sunk into the kiss. It was...amazing. For some reason, it had never made so much sense to her. Gus was...perfect. She had always just thought of him as a friend, but today...things had changed. In that single moment, she had wanted him, and now that she was in his arms, their lips locking together, she couldn't understand why she had never thought of this before. Her hand slid up his neck and ran through his hand. How long had it been since she'd felt that way? Too long.
This was...perfect.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:46 pm
Gus pulled back slightly without taking a breath. He hovered, eyes closed a fraction of a centimeter away from her face... She was. That's all there was to it. She was.
and then some far off recess of his brain screamed at him.... "BREATHE IDIOT." And he did. He fell back away from her and sucked in a deep breath, air making his small chest puff out as his face filled with a smile as genuine as he was blue.
He stared over at her his hand resting on her leg where it had slid to when he pulled back. His cheeks were pink and his eyes were dreamy and half closed in glee.... "I love you." He wasn't stammering. "I think about you all the time.... I love you and I can't help it."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:57 pm
Tifa too was breathing deeply. Her cheeks were hot, her heart was pounding, and her hands were shaking a little, now resting in her lap. She stared at him, taken aback as he said those words. They hit in her in the chest and rippled through her. He...loved her? "Wow..." she said, and just breathed for a few moments. Did she feel the same way, how do you know if you love someone?
Have you thought about him a lot since you last saw him?
...Yeah.
Do you think this is too fast?
...No.
Then what do you think? Do you love him?
"...Yes," Tifa said out loud, then blushed again. She shut her eyes and grinned - that was a conversation in her head, not out loud. She opened them again, grabbing his hand in both of hers. Her eyes sparkled with excitement. "I think I love you too," she said, and giggled a little. It made her giddy to say. "I don't know why we never...I just never thought about it that way," she said in disbelief. How could something so obvious have been sitting in front of her face this whole time, and she had never even...How could she have been so stupid? This felt so...right.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:04 pm
He smiled and stroked the side of her face, never taking his eyes off her face. "That's ok, I guess. I always figured that you'd never thought about me like... like this." He smiled apologetically. "I'm nothing like most people..." He paused... he wanted to say that he wasn't strong or galliant... he wanted to say that he wasn't handsome... that he wasn't tall... that he wasn't normal... but she knew that... didn't she?
"It's ok that you don't think of me like that." this time it was a statement plain and true. "You're here." she was here and he was here and they were here together... god what was wrong with him? He wasn't even making sense in his head.
"I'm sorry... I'm not making sense and I'm being strange..."
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:15 pm
Tifa smiled, her cheek tingling where his fingers had been. "You're right," she said, snuggling into the couch. "You're not like most guys..." she said, then tapped her chin. "You're kind, you're smart, you're sensitive...not the average guy, I would say," she said, smiling warmly.
"And it's okay. I get it. I'm here," she said, her eyes locked on him. She brushed her lips against his again, then leaned back. "And so're you." It made perfect sense...well, to them it did.
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Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 9:23 pm
He smiled again and then he leaned forward and pulled her into a hug. He was going to get all the contact he could before he woke from this dream... and he sucked in her smell and the way she felt... he wanted to tell her he loved her but stopped himself before he did... afterall, he'd already said it. And she had said he was smart... and individual...
he gave her one last quick squeeze and then released his grip on her completely. He leaned back and scooted away from her on the sofa. Gus drapped his arm over the back of the sofa and crossed his legs at the ankles... He smiled over at her and sighed contentedly... "What now, love?"
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